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2010 Foulies: Best Soccer Blog We Envy For Its Huge Traffic Numbers

This one is pretty simple: We’re a small-ish, third-rate blog run by people who can’t even agree on whether The Replacements are a good band or not (they aren’t).

So when we look at blogs with bigger numbers, we do get pageview envy. We admit it.

But just because we hate other people’s success, we don’t hate their work. With that in mind, consider the following nominees.

Dirty Tackle—I give Brooks Peck a lot of grief for being part of the Yahoo! traffic machine. And yes, I think even he might admit he doesn’t get the level of commenters that we do here at UF, but he does well because he does good stuff. The Continental makes me laugh almost every time, and he churns out posts at a rate that must mean he’s actually getting paid. Lucky guy.

Soccer by Ives—While Ives Galarcep doesn’t seem to be writing quite as much for his namesake blog since his move to Fox Sports, he’s added some quality people. Ives is the guy you want to MLS stuff and good, solid game reports. What do you think about his blog? Share your thoughts in the comments.

Who Ate All The Pies—Ollie Irish’s blog was the reason I found Unprofessional Foul. He was linked in a post on some other blog, so I checked his stuff out, laughed my head off, saw a link to UF and thought, “well, if it’s even close to this good…” My first UF post read was by the long-deceased Bigus Dickus. It was about Norwich. I went back to “Pies” immediately.

The Spoiler—It’s not enough that The Spoiler has some of the best WAG pics around, but they also do work with Deadspin, which gives them crazy numbers. Envy.

Kickette—Since I struck out with the Needs More Kittens chick, I’ve decided to set my sites on the gals over at Kickette. They have a niche, and they do it so well that nobody else can some close.

There are the contestants. Vote below and make sure to check out the main post for the other categories. Vote safely!

Definitely in for Kickette, my intertoobz touchstone for what women find attractive. If Kickette thinks something is hot, then I will consider it. If Kickette says don’t ever [...], then I don’t ever [...]. The fact that Kickette is commenting about incredibly fit, incredibly wealthy professional athletes only occasionally fails to deter me. The power of Kickette is that strong.
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Replacements = bad movie about scab football with Keanu

@Andrew, @Jacob: I was smack in the target demographic when Bill & Ted’s hit the screen; it is without hesitation that I state: that film moved me.
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RE: Replacements: I’ll defer to your apparently greater knowledge of Keanu’s body of work and admit that I’ve not seen it all the way through. My intent was more to demonstrate my ignorance of the band and now I’ve illustrated my ignorance of Keanu’s second (or third) greatest role.
/woe = me

Wait, did you guys misplace my blog nomination? My traffic is almost up to four digits (if you strategically add zeroes after the decimal point). And I can assure those numbers are accurate because my accountant has extensive experience in derivatives based on “below prime” mortgages

Dear Sir
I would like to send you a PDF of my humorous novel ‘Football Crazy’ in the hope that you might find time to read it and, if you enjoy it, review it or give it a mention on you blog. Football Crazy is currently on the front page in the Lad Lit category of the Amazon Kindle Bookstore and is priced at just 99p.
I hope you will be able to oblige.